NeL: The Next Great MMORPG?. 20 Oct 2003: O'Reilly tells us aboutNeL.”Like EverQuest and Star Wars Galaxies, Ryzom will be a massive multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG) with immersive 3D graphics. The developers have released Ryzom's engine code under the GNU General Public License. … NeL (for Nevrax Library) is a toolkit for the creating 3D-graphic MMORPGs or similar online game-play environments that require both client and server code. It runs on the Linux and Windows OSes, using OpenGL as its 3D graphics renderer [RootPrompt.org -- Nothing but Unix]

Project Gutenberg Publishes 10,000th Free eBook [Slashdot] I interviewed the guy who set this up for a long feature story for New Scientist back in 2001 (I filed the story on September 10… thereby ensuring that the story got bumped as a cover story, which it was supposed to have been. Sigh!). What a great project this is. And under threat, like so many good initiatives, by increasingly ridiculous copyright limitations. [[ t e c h n o \ c u l t u r e ]]

AoIR 4.4.1. ON QUALITATIVE RESEARCH What follows is an extensive set of notes on this morning's discussion, entitled “Broadening Options and Raising Standards for Qualitative Internet Research: A Dialogue Among Scholars.” The panel was convened by Annette Markham (UIC), and included Nancy Baym (Kansas), Susan Herring (IU Bloomington), Shani Orgad (London School… [Planned Obsolescence]

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this looks like it was an interesting panel, i missed it though.